Fountain (2016)

Bronze, aluminium, 43 x 47 x 29 cm

Using Duchamp as a reference, Çavuşoğlu titles his sculpture, ‘Fountain,’ 2016, after the artist’s famous early ready-made. Like ’Percé Rock’ he takes a nature-made or hand-made and makes it into Art in a manner so as to both critique and proselytize the whole process. But, in the case of ‘Fountain,’ the object that he uses predates Duchamp’s urinal by more than a century and is a bronze cast of a hand-carved wooden table with an embedded toilet basin. Here Çavuşoğlu juxtaposes mass-production with specialized production all the while also speaking to art and history. And in so doing it becomes itself a kind of liminal and transitory object, an object of in-betweenness. 

Which sun gazed down on your last dream? Exhibition brochure text by Nicole Dee O’Rourke (2016)